Meaning

5 senses
  1. Of art, a photograph or photography, using dots or lines that are either black or white (with no other values involved).

    Using Adobe Photoshop, he opened the images that were grayscale and converted them to be black and white.

  2. (broadly)Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.

    Their photos from that era are all black and white.

  3. Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.

  4. Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.

    I wish she weren't always so black and white about every single thing.

  5. Easily divided into diametrically opposing categories.

    Near-synonym: night-and-day

More definitions
  • not having or not capable of producing colors

Examples

161 sentences
  1. Dogs see in black and white.

    У собак чорно-білий зір. — deniko

    ruСобаки видят всё в чёрно-белом цвете. — krevedko

    deHunde sehen alles in schwarz und weiß. — Sudajaengi

  2. A black and white dog bit me.

    Чорно-білий пес вкусив мене. — ChickenKiev

    ruЧёрно-белая собака укусила меня. — Lenin_1917

  3. We have a black and white dog.

    В нас чорно-біла собака. — iceman

    ruУ нас черно-белая собака. — OlgaElwen

    deWir haben einen schwarzweißen Hund. — MUIRIEL

  4. I have a black and a white dog.

    У мене є чорний та білий пес. — Walentinio

    ruУ меня есть белая собака и чёрная собака. — ae5s

    deIch habe einen schwarzen und einen weißen Hund. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I have a black dog and a white dog.

    В мене є чорний та білий собака. — rmdas

    ruУ меня есть чёрная собака и белая. — marafon

Translations

1 languages

Origin

The police car sense reflects a traditional livery scheme for such cars.

The police car sense reflects a traditional livery scheme for such cars.

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Forms

more black and white, most black and white

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • not having or not capable of producing colors:black-and-white

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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